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Letter "E" » E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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«So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'»
«He was a brilliant man, a complex man. The march justified him as a military man, but he had a great deal of guilt about it, and when the war was over he immediately left his troops and went down to do rescue-and-recovery operations. He wanted to rehabilitate the people he'd been destroying and dispossessing.»
«Its glory is all moonshine.»
«You could go for miles without seeing an end to the procession of troops and horses and wagons, ... An eagle aloft in the April winds high over the landscape would only see something iridescently blue and side-winding that looked like the floodplain of a river.»
«Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.»
«You can't do that to Carl.»
«Not really, ... There is no Carl. I made him up.»
«It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of interviewing someone. I was just a kid and so maybe I was scared that no one would want to talk to me. And I figured that if there wasn't a Carl the doorman, there should have been.»
«We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.»
«Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.»
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